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SAFETY PIN. No. 301,448. Patented July 1, 1884.

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WILLIAM F. HYATT, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK.

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,448, dated July 1, 1884. Application filed Marchfil, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. HYATT, of Brooklyn, in Kings county, and the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a specification. I

My improvement consists in the combination, with a pin comprising two limbs-one having a sharpened end and the other an unsharpened end, the latter being bent outward at an angle toward thelimb having the sharpened endof an approximately L-shaped shield having one limb or portion fastened to the bent-back portion of the limb of the pin having the unsharpened end, and the other limb or portion extended at about right angles and adjacent to the outwardly-bent extremity of the unsharpened end of the pin, whereby the outwardly-bent extremity of the unsharpened end of the pin will serve as a guide for directing the sharpened end of the pin into the shield.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a safety-pin embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, showing the shield in section; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken at the plane of the dotted line a Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference designate corre sponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the pin. It is bent around in- ,to a coil, to, at about the middle, to form a spring and two limbs or port-ions, b c, at opposite sides of the coil. The end (1 of the limb I) is unsharpened; but the end 6 of the limb c is sharpened. The unsharpened end (I of the pin is bent back upon the limb b for a short 1 distance, and at the extremity is bent out at an angle to said limb and toward the limb o.

B designates the shield which is used with the pin. It will preferably be made of sheet metal, and is shown as approximately L- shaped. In other words, the shield is composed, essentially, of two portions arranged at about right angles to each other. One of these portions extends around the limb b, where the unsharpened end d is bent back against it, and it extends across toward the limb 0 just beyond the outwardly-bent extremity of the unsharpened end d. The other portion of the shield extends approximately parallel with the limb b, and is hollowed out at the side which is adjacent to the limb Z), so as to receive and retain the sharpened end e of the limb c. It will be seen that the extremity of the unsharpened end (Z of the limb 1) extends almost to the portion of the shield which receives the sharpened end 6 of the limb o of the pin, and hence that it serves as a guide whereby the sharpened end e of the limb 0 may be directed into the shield.

The shield may be fastened to the limb b of the pin by solder, or by being pinched on the same.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a pin comprising two linksone having a sharpened end and the other an unsharpened end, the latter being bent outward at an angle toward the limb having the sharpened endof an approximately L-shaped shield having one limb or portion fastened to the bent-back portion of the limb of the pin having the unsharpened end, and the other limb or portion extended at about right angles and adjacent to the outwardlybent extremity of the unsharpened end of the pin, substantially as specified.

IVM. F. HYATT.

\Vitnesses:

T. J. Knaxn, EDWARD T. Roonn. 

